A few notable scenes missing from the theatrical film:
-There is a whole subplot involving that Mary girl who wouldn’t let Rudy paint the helmets. Apparently she’s also a writer for the school newspaper and learns of Rudy’s story. She must of been the one who wrote the article the announcer mentioned during the GT game.
-The priest who helped Rudy get into Holy Cross says goodbye to Rudy as he leaves to go on a mission in Bangladesh. That explains why he’s not at the game at the end of the movie.
-Rudy meets with Dan Devine to make sure he’ll still be part of the team after Devine takes over. Devine says he doesn’t like using walk-ons seeing that he has 90 elite athletes & only dresses 60. He tells Rudy he can still be on the team after Coach Yost spoke highly of him.